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Putting this on screen in a Bass Pro Shop would completely upend U.S. foreign policy for a generation.

submitted 2 hours ago • 18 comments

Been thinking a lot lately about the coffeehouses antiwar vets ran near bases during Vietnam

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Would urge any Senator pushing legalization of crypto as a way to "win back young men" to talk to any man in their 20s or 30s who is looking to crypto for stability and consider what they are choosing to neglect in order to make those investments. People who buy scratch-offs daily are a sounder base

submitted 2 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump’s Military Parade Was a Gross (Expensive) Failure www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 hours ago • 35 comments

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

submitted 5 hours ago • 343 comments

Oh okay the shooter today was part of the longest running strand of reactionary violence, anti-abortion. That's been decades of lead, not just years of lead.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

NEW: Suspect in Minnesota assassination preached the gospel to "militant Islamists" in Gaza and the West Bank during the Second Intifada per his ministry's website; webmaster says he had "lots of ideas to make the world a better place." With @tessowen.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social

submitted 10 hours ago • 34 comments

As someone who has been to enough Mardi Gras parades to have a sense of what causes a parade to go shit, imagine if the tanks broke down. Cannot imagine they’ve prepped the equipment to tow them

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Great, important scoop by @stevenbeynon.bsky.social www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

NO KINGS TWO PRINCES (JUST GO AHEAD NOW)

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

One of the pernicious legacies of neoconservatism - though not nearly as bad as the Iraq War itself - was it became impossible to express solidarity with oppressed people or to oppose dictators without being associated with warmongers. The latter doesn’t have to follow the former.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Really hard to overstate the extent to which opposition to the current administration is the default position of normal people. They’re handing out kazoos. There’s bubble machines

submitted 10 hours ago • 22 comments

We're out here ✊🏽

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

no draft kings (really, i think online gambling is a terrible scam)

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

#NoKings protest in Santa Fe, NM

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day to be in Iowa City with thousands of my fellow Iowans standing up for the freedoms and opportunities that make our communities strong. When we come together as neighbors, we can tackle any challenge facing us.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

RWE violence has a long history in the US, a straight line from the Second KKK to McVeigh to J6. but what really differentiates this era, I think, is that the info environment allows the GOP to simultaneously enjoy the benefits of credible violent threat while disavowing every perpetrator

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

went to roadside protest, well attended. got tons of honks of support from most whites and every POC who drove by, in particular mail trucks and huge beaming smiles from the Latinos driving contractor pickup trucks. filled my heart honestly. that's fucking right #NoKings

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

I wrote about Los Angeles newrepublic.com/post/196749/...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

believe me, if "left-wing" extremism was producing any significant violence, a bunch of us extremism scholars would be gathering awards and swimming in grant money at some kind of Hoover Institute for Hating Lefties Lab

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

would love to read a story on how "spicy" became an all-purpose social media descriptor for everything from sexy content to neurodivergent to street violence, presumably linked to algo-speak

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Amazing turnout in the People’s Republic of Takoma Park, MD. People lining both sides of New Hampshire Ave. as far as the eye can see in an immigrant heavy neighborhood. #nokings

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

The sign I made for today's march includes four of Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions for 1943: Don't get lonesome. Beat fascism. Love everybody. Wake up and fight.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

No kings / only the Kingsmen

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

At the No Kings protest at the RI State House

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

People think the moral of Minority Report is that you can’t predict crime—but the other central moral is when you build a law enforcement system that is held up as unquestionable and objectively correct 100% of the time, people who control it can use it to do anything with no consequences.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

years of lead paint

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

the thing about the Rubicon is as a river it's pretty easy to cross, not doing so is more about a respect for the rules than the difficulty of breaking them

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

Obama and Biden are not responsible for the actions of the GOP or outbursts of right-wing violence. They are, however, fully implicated in the failure to understand what the American right was becoming and accepting the consequences for addressing it honestly and forcefully.

submitted 14 hours ago • 29 comments

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

submitted 14 hours ago • 50 comments

Anwar Sadat speedrun? Anwar Sadat speedrun tonight? Anwar Sadat speedrun tonight king?

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Snow More Kings

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

The Philly No Kings protest has already grown so big that it has spilled into the street. A variety of groups, organizations and causes represented among the crowd. This woman is now leading a chant.

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

Being a historian doesn’t give me the mantle of authority to say definitively what’s happening here or how anyone should respond, but I feel qualified to say this: If you were writing an account of how the United States devolved into violence and fragmentation, all this would be chapter 1 or 2.

submitted 14 hours ago • 29 comments

Lot of great signs here in Love Park

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

*withdrew the report, but stayed DHS until 2013

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There are few times I am at a loss for words. Today is one of those days. I’m mourning the devastating loss of my friend Speaker Melissa Hortman and her devoted husband Mark Hortman.

submitted 14 hours ago • 78 comments

there should be an edit button that puts a strikethrough on the original text so it's obvious what was changed

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

This is well-intended, but I disagree. Should people try to persuade the persuadeable? Sure. But that's not the only thing these protests are about. They are about undermining Trump and his supporters. Mock him hard! They are about building solidarity. Sing and chant! Use Mexican flags!

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments